My VPS host is currently experiencing an outage that’s not even listed on the status page, and I’m starting to look at better options. Recommendations?<p>I’m on the east coast, but suggestions for other regions are appreciated too.
OVH of course. Hetzner is a name that comes up often too.<p>Note that you can have a dedicated server, not just a VPS, for as cheap as 5 EUR / month (and you can go up to insanely powerful stuff with bandwidth and CPU power sufficient for 99.99% of all the SMEs in the world at a fraction of the price of cloud offerings). They automatically come with quite beefy DoS protection too.<p>These are remotely controlled: you can re-install another Linux distro in minutes. You can also boot to a Web console. I precise this because any time these names comes up some comments here invariably explaining that <i>"I don't have the time to assemble a server"</i> or <i>"I don't have the time to drive to the datacenter to fix a failed machine"</i> etc.<p>We're talking about companies managing hundreds of thousands of servers (since decades now?). They know what they are doing.
Digital Ocean droplets start at $4 USD/month and super reliable. <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets" rel="nofollow">https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets</a>